[Info-vax] DEC BASIC: How to read a sequential

[David Froble]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Apr 13, 8:41 am, StGallen <sengupta.su... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>> DEC Basic 1.3. VMS 7.3.2
>>
>> I need to open a sequential file with variable record length. How can
>> I do this, especially since I cannot define the size of the STRINGS in
>> the MAP file?
>>
>> Also if I open the file without a MAP file, how do I read the records
>> from the file?
>>
>> Any help deeply appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks!
> 
> A number of years ago (the  early 1980s) the corporate IT people at my
> employers company mandated that all code not written by the white coat
> boys would be done in BASIC (we were never told the reasons so
> conspiracy theories were many). We were on PDP so were forced to use
> BASIC2+. Since then I've personally lived through VAX-BASIC which was
> later renamed  "DEC-BASIC for VAX" and "DEC-BASIC for Alpha". I've
> also lived through various changes from VAX-BASIC to DEC-BASIC to
> Compaq-BASIC to HP-BASIC. That said, this demo should work for you;
> 
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/demo_vms_html/bas_rms_sequential_demo.html
> 
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
> 

What !!!

No Basic+ ???